Trash camp presents going on a double date. Oh my gosh, Jason and Ashley
I'm so glad that you guys come on over Jason
I know that you and David are gonna just be the best of friends
We got so much in common, but girl let me show you my shoe rack so these boys can start talking
I've been waiting for you to show me. Oh my god. I'm so happy to be in your house finally. Oh my god
So, uh
You like sports?
Not really. I'm not a big sports guy. Oh
Okay
Ashley tells me that you
That you're really big in like comic books and stuff. Who's your favorite superhero?
I mean I got an Archie and Jughead from the grocery store once
Okay, so what do you do for a living? So I work in the parks and recreation department in town
And
Right now
Primarily mowing the grass it's been quite rainy this year. Oh, okay cool deal
Do you like to use a riding lawn mower? Do you just like to use the old push mower?
I prefer not to talk about work while I'm off. Okay, well, I see that we literally have nothing in common
So I'm gonna go get a beer
You could stay here if you want or you could come along or whatever you want to do
But I don't think this is
Hi, I'm Chris and I'm Michael and this is the Dona box podcast
Fellas if you've ever been on a double date where you didn't really know the guy that is pretty accurate
Or it's always one of two things on the double date either the girls really get along and the boys don't get along or the boys
Really get along and the girls don't get along that well fortunately. Thank God
You know with me and Micah and our wives we all for get along. It's such a great time sometimes a little bit too well
Yeah, we worry about our wives and the plans that they make behind our back
But that's a different story for a different day and that belongs to what fries my doughnut sometimes
Yeah, for sure for sure, but we are welcoming all those that are listening returning. We love you guys
Where are those people that are listening from shout them out? Oh, man. We're talking Iowa. We talking Ohio
We talking Virginia. We talking Oregon is a big one Washington State
We even got of course, we got some mainstays Texas around Texas. We got some New Mexico, Oklahoma
I mean literally
Kansas is a big one man. We got so many. What about the international ones Chris? Oh, yeah, Canada for sure Singapore
Australia over actually in Israel. Did you know we have some Israeli listeners? That's pretty cool in the UK England Spain
Germany France, you know all the great European country, you know, I'm not gonna lie to you
I never thought that my and I know India is in there, too. I never thought that
My voice would be heard around the world. That's kind of weird to think about really is they probably make fun of us
So here's this is kind of a side story
So we were watching this wrestling pay-per-view and it was in London and this guy came out and he was an Aussie, right?
This wrestler and he cut this promo and they crowd kept yelling wanker like they kept calling them a wanker
But I couldn't understand what they were saying
So it took me like a good five minutes to understand what they were yelling at him and I was like, oh, okay
They're yelling wanker at him. I get it. That's like the clothing mother effort and
English but that's great
One other side note. I'm just gonna say the NFL be having games in London now and those
Those UK fans are pretty nuts pretty nuts. So I'm telling you they're dedicated sports folks for sure
Yeah, they bring the energy man even for that wrestling pay-per-view. They were bringing higher G
So gotta love it gotta love our UK people
So we're gonna dive in into our first segment, which is the old-fashioned donut
Which is a story from our past and this is gonna be a two-parter so both Mike and I have been to big
Summer camps where we actually went out of state and we stayed for did you stay for a week when you went 10 days?
Oh my 10 days. Yeah, it was probably I think
Maybe about 10 days on my end too
So yeah, we're gonna share about our summer camp big experiences because there's a lot of good stories out of there
So I might could tell them what happened with your summer camp what it was where it was that kind of what was all involved in some
Maybe some cool stories. So
Weirdly enough and I still don't know who and how this happened
But whenever I was going from my freshman in high school to sophomore in high school year like that summer gap
Well, let me backtrack so that freshman year later on and I'll put it to this way
I was in what they call pre-ap classes or like the I guess
I would you describe them Chris honors classes. Yeah, there you go, you know, I don't want to be like honors classes
I really didn't like it. I didn't like the crowd
But if something you know your parents make you do kind of thing if you can be in it
I don't know a parent that won't make you be in that anyways
so was in there and a few classes and I get this letter one day towards the end of
Freshman year and it was from this
Academic camp I guess and it was for how do I describe it?
They were they were trying like new learning concepts that they wanted to adopt into schools and kind of like a new
education sort of thing and basically take
Certain students that were like nominated and I still have no clue who nominated me like the letter just came out of nowhere
All I remember about it was like, okay, it's at this university called Wake Forest in North Carolina
If you've ever heard of it. It's beautiful campus. It's really small
I
Could never afford to actually get in there. It's a it's a private school. So it's just really really expensive to get in there
But yeah, it was it was kind of a whirlwind thing because it was right
You know the end of school happened and it was like right there in June. It was like, okay, boom
It was 10 days and from where we were at in Augusta. It was about I
Guess it was about a three and a half four hour drive up there and we drove up there
And I had never been that far north into North Carolina
I had been to Charlotte, but I'd never been to Winston Salem where Wake Forest was and have you ever been that far north Chris?
I think I I have but like never stopping like I've traveled through that far north, but I've never stopped
I got you. It's beautiful up there. I mean it really it's really a beautiful country up there
but stayed there and
essentially you would think this is kind of bad, but it was a lot of
Academic-based things so we stayed in the dorms first and foremost
It was kind of like a okay in a few years. You're gonna be going to college
It's like a college preparedness thing tips and tricks, but also
testing certain
Like retention tools and techniques like I remember one in particular
They they taught us to basically read an entire paragraph and how you do it quickly is
You close your eyes and it's a focusing technique and then you close your eyes and you think of a very relaxing spot and
You're supposed to take five seconds and visualize that then you roll your eyes up and down and then when you open your eyes
apparently you are
ten times more focused or whatever and so they essentially gave us tests, right? Okay, you didn't do that technique
What is your comprehension score on this long paragraph?
And they would give you a time limit a very short time limit
So it's like you probably won't get through the entire paragraph
So you won't be able to really answer all the questions, but why they did that was to see okay
How much are you actually retaining in that short bit of time versus when you do that focusing technique?
How much are you reading and retaining and how much can you answer afterwards?
It was actually pretty surprising how much different it was there was a lot of a lot more retention when you do things like that and there's
A bunch of those little tips and tricks and things like that that helped me get through some things
But I've got a question. Did you have to pay to go or did they pay you to go?
Had to pay to go
That was actually something that my parents weren't exactly happy about I understand that because it's like okay
You want me to be a guinea pig for this new academic testing?
Method and I'm gonna have to pay my way to go that doesn't make sense
But anyways continue what they what they also provided in return is it's 90s hours worth of academic seat time
And a recommendation to a university and they had connections with a bunch of different universities and things like that
So essentially if you attended this, I don't know in theory you would have
Easier access getting to these universities or something along those lines, right?
It's like okay. He had 90 hours worth of seat time at this particular
You know then they had connections like that apparently that was the deal and
I just remember I got back to the Georgia afterwards
And it's like are you gonna take these 90 hours and the credit is like yeah, nobody in Georgia is gonna take that
It's pretty much what my guidance counselor told me they were like yeah
Nobody's gonna take that pretty much. So what you're telling me is that you did all pretty much
Did you get like of course y'all did like nerd stuff, right?
Like all the math and all the reading and all that stuff
But did you have like any fun stories like did y'all get to have any fun or did you meet any cool people?
Oh, yeah, met a bunch of cool people because they were all from around the country
It wasn't just like from the south or anything like that and a lot of these kids were
Very affluent and yeah, they're they're rich kids. I'll be honest
I didn't really realize this at the time, but they really liked me and they really like drew to me because I had this really southern accent
I don't think I do as bad anymore, but apparently I did back then so they called me they call me cornbread
Because apparently nobody else was that southern around there
I will attest to that ladies and gentlemen most his accent is predominantly gone
But if you go back and watch the Krispy Kreme episode you can hear that accent it's pretty thick
But I also had a pretty thick accent too, but anyways continue
I'm sorry when it when you in the weeds you in the weeds, but now I'm at a bunch of cool people
I mean a bunch of doctors and lawyers kids a lot of folks from Florida shout out Florida
You know they were living in Boca
That sort of thing a lot of folks from California up north in
New York, I even have a friend that I've been talking to since that point
I guess it's one of those things have you ever had a friend like you don't really talk to them
But maybe once and have blue moon and it's like here's a life event that have happened yay
And they're like dude that's awesome for you and maybe sometimes they'll text you and be like here's what's been going on with me
And it's like oh, that's pretty cool
And it's just been like that ever since guess sophomore year and so kind of interesting 1112 years
That's crazy. Do you think everybody in your in that honors class got the letter? I
Don't think so because nobody else knew what I was talking
When I went back the next year like I talked about it because I was honestly expecting somebody to be there
There was nobody else from Georgia there like that was literally it was literally from a bunch of other state
But nobody from well, I take that back there was somebody from the Atlanta area
But I mean that's kind of expected right Atlanta's a big city
But it was it was just kind of weird
Okay, last question were you glad that you had the experience of going to academic camp or you were like oh my gosh
This was a waste of my summer. No, it was pretty cool. I mean it taught me how to do
Certain things it helped my math skills a lot then it also
I know it was learning but they try to make it as fun as possible and they try to use real-world scenarios instead of
Like I said, it wasn't like traditional learning where you're sitting there in the classroom
And maybe I should divulge on that a little bit too
They were very much on I
Guess best way to describe is kind of how like Google operates where you know
You have 15 minutes of learning time then you give 10 15 minutes worth of a break
Whether that be and you know, they pulled out the football or whatever and wherever we were at it's a college campus
So there's greenery around so it's like you go toss the football around for 10 minutes and come back inside for somebody
That was a sophomore in high school and not as high energy as maybe like a middle schooler
elementary schooler
It was still nice to in between learning and even learning that you're not really realizing is learning when learning's fun
You don't really realize you're doing it. You're just kind of I guess going with what they're saying going, okay
Yeah, I can do that. Okay, and before you know it you that makes sense. I don't I don't know
It's kind of difficult to explain. I haven't had it too much in life, but in that instance they were
That model was really good. I really think that if they move that sort of thing into schools
It would it would improve things a lot
There were also very big on things like block scheduling if you've ever heard that in schools where it's like
You have a certain schedule on one day and then it alternates the next day then the other week it alternates
And so basically you have two days to do your homework and you essentially it just kind of helps out
And it really models more of like the real-world working style instead of every single day is the same exact thing to a certain
extent which can be some jobs for sure, but it's one of those things towards I don't know it
It gets you prepared to have multitude of tasks and have to handle all of that on different days if that makes sense
Well deal well ladies and gentlemen you heard Micah share about going to academic camp
And I thought I was the nerd, but you know, it's whatever not just kidding just kidding
I could I'm glad it helped you in your school work because I'm sure that it did help you last thing
I was just like dude. I can't wait for college and then I didn't end up going
I went to community college, but yeah, we stayed in the dorms and it was like shared showers and all that other stuff
I mean it was it wasn't co-ed or anything like that. Of course we were all in their 18, but it
You know, I mean it was one of those things it was it was pretty fun. Nice well cool deal man
Well, we're gonna hop into our next segment segment and instead of the jelly donut. We have a different segment
This is the segment of I met a famous person and I didn't even know it so it's about all snap
Yep stories of people they met a famous person and they didn't even realize it at the time. So you ready for these?
Let's do it. Some of these are pretty funny
All right
This person said that they were 10 years old in 2002 and that their mom took them to the Bronx Zoo for the very first time
It was a rainy day
So they practically had the whole place to themselves
Except for three British kids that were running around and there was some woman that was shaft were owning them
The person's mom quickly befriended the woman while I made like a kid and joined the whole horde
So this person was hanging out with three British kids when we said our goodbyes
My mother told me that the kid Daniel
I had been hanging out with had played Harry Potter in the movie that came out last year
So this was when the like first couple of Harry Potter movies came out
And it was like three kids and he was just like oh that kid's name is Daniel. Oh, okay didn't put two and two together
And so I guess that person met Daniel Radcliffe and his friends. That's kind of cool
That is cool, but it's just like I wish I wish I would have known but anyways go ahead
Yeah, you wish you would have known you're like, oh man. All right this next one
This person says that their mom yelled at Pierce Brosnan
Did she go Karen on Pierce Brosnan, yeah, I guess so so the mom and the dad were at the ski resort getting lunch
The mom was angry and was waiting in line to order right as she was about to order a guy tried to cut in front of her
She snapped and told him to get to the back of the line like everybody else
She got her food and went back to the dad that was just sitting there and his mouth was wide open and shocked
And he said did you know that you just yelled at Pierce Brosnan and she said well, he shouldn't have tried to cut me in line. She
Didn't care she was like listen. I'm hungry. He shouldn't have been trying to cut in line. I mean fair
I mean even if you're an actor, I don't think that you should have the special privilege of being cut in line
I completely agree. All right next one
This lady was a big sports fan and she saw him one time she was shopping and saw a really large fit-looking man
That she didn't immediately recognize but she was like oh that guy seems familiar
She thought it must have been a professional football player or something
So she went up to the only other person in the store who was a smaller guy and asked him if he knew who that athletic man was
And he said that's my bodyguard. I'm Elton John
So it was Elton John's bodyguard that she was looking at and she asked the guy and the guy turned out to be Elton John
That's funny. No like no offense
But I don't think it would be easy to recognize Elton John without all the garb on like maybe it would but I don't know
Like every time I've ever seen Elton John. He's always in you know
Sparkly stuff and weirdo like weird crazy glasses
So I think if you just saw him in public in regular street clothes, you just probably look like another dude
Well then too you just realized like these people are normal people
So when you see these people in public, you're like there's no way that so-and-so like no way like I met a wrestler at one
Of the shows and I was like there's no way this is this guy and then I see him on TV now
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I met him and literally after the meet and greet
He went and got went in line like a normal person in order to popcorn and I was like, huh
Just doing it like a normal person. So at least he didn't cut in line. Yep. He didn't cut in line. All right. This next one
This lady's husband was vacationing in Arizona
killing time in a bar over a burger and a beer and a guy
was sitting next to him and
This lady's husband and the guy had a nice chat of the guy left and the husband went to close the tab and the bartender told
Them that he'd been covered by the guy that he was talking to
Apparently it was Chuck Norris
I'm like
How do you know I don't know man. Do you not recognize Chuck Norris?
I mean my thing is even if you've been living under a rock for years
I don't know anybody that does not know who Chuck Norris is or what his face at least looks like
Yeah, I'm sitting here. I'm calling BS on that one though because I'm like, I think you would I know Chuck Norris has
Significantly aged and now he looks different, but I'm like, yeah, no way you would have known who that was for me personally
You can still tell by the voice like even though he looks different his voice is still the same to me
but anyway, this lady's cousin wrote a ski lift in Bale, Colorado and then
Apparently this lady was in the ski lift behind them, but in the ski lift in front of them
There was Jack Black that was riding with
with her cousin right and so we got off the lift and they'd gone their separate ways and
The cousin was like, oh, yeah that guy on my left was so nice
And we were like no dipsherlock that was Jack Black and she was like the school of rock guy
And she was so embarrassed because she rambled on about living in Iowa for most of their conversation
And so apparently she was just talking to Jack Black and just having a normal conversation
It didn't even realize it was him, you know as a celebrity. That's probably the most refreshing thing in the world
You're probably expecting like oh gosh, like I don't think that they all probably like that
I mean, I'm sure most of them love their fans and stuff like that
But there's gotta be at least a time where you're sitting there going oh gosh
I'm gonna get on this ski lift and they're gonna be like my god
You're Jack Black and want to take a bunch of pictures and I just want to go on the ski lift and whatnot
And then all of a sudden they start talking to us like hi. Yeah, what's your name?
Oh, I'm Jack, you know, and they're just like yeah, well, I lived in Iowa
And you're just like oh, yeah, they have no clue who I am. This is great
I could imagine that's probably great
Here's here's my deal though like part of me is like if I met a famous person
I would be hesitant about asking for pictures and autographs, but then there's another part of me like this is a one-time thing like
How can I not get a picture? So let me ask you if you
For some reason ran into Peyton Manning on like a random day or Tom Brady
Would you ask him for a picture? Yes, and here's how I would do it like I wouldn't try to
Because I think what probably is the worst for a celebrity and I thought about how I would probably
Want to be approached as a celebrity so say I see him at the airport or whatever, right?
Just literally walk up to him and say I'm so sorry to do this. I'm a huge fan. Do you modify snap a picture right quick?
Snap the picture and go I really appreciate it
Have a nice flight and just get out of their way as quickly as possible
But still have that interaction and you know, I don't know
I'm sure some people will be like oh no like yeah take a picture and you know be all cool about it
But I'm sure most of them again. They're just trying to travel
They're just trying to do whatever and so I just would try to be as quick as possible about it of like hey
You know super big fan. So you're telling me that if you saw Troy Aikman
You wouldn't be fan boy any fan boying over him. I got wood from afar. I I just I feel so bad about
You know, he probably gets that so often. I mean he lives in Texas for God's sakes
I think there's a reason that a lot of the time he's traveling
And it's out of state because that man could definitely not go anywhere in the state of Texas without being known and
Everybody wanting to talk to him or buy him a beer or something and I'm sure you know
It's got to get tiring after a while. Oh, yeah for sure for sure
Yeah, it's kind of hard because it's like you don't want to look like a fan boy
But on the inside you're like holy crap. I just meant so it so you're like this is really cool
Yeah, absolutely. I mean it's just like I would want to grab the picture grab the autograph if it's something
I also depends on the situation if it's one of those things to where it's
You know, there's not a lot of other people around and he seems like okay. Yeah, I'm cool to talk or whatever, you know
I'll see where what happens
But if it's in one of those really public situations where there's a lot of people and maybe there's already stuff like that been happening
Yeah, I'm gonna try to make it as quick as possible. Yeah, I agree with you
Well, those are actually that actually happened to us man when we went on the Cowboys field
we walk past the Marcus where and if you guys don't know the Marcus where used to play for the Cowboys and
He was really short and he wasn't wearing his pads
And we thought it was just a dude wearing a Cowboys jersey and we literally asked him like excuse me sir
Like we need to get past and he just was like, okay, and I was like man. That was the Marcus where yeah
That was that was messed up. It was filming a commercial of some sort
But yeah, I'll tell you this much him on TV was a lot bigger
But yeah, he was just in his jersey and he had his helmet on and he was like tossing a football
And there was kind of a TV production crew, but I mean that could have been anybody, right?
You I thought like oh, it's just like a standing actor or something because his face was all covered up too
like he had that helmet with the face mask that covered everything so like you couldn't see who it was and
I just remember
He probably thought it was he probably got a kick out of it because we were literally walking by him's like excuse me and we were just
Like yeah, that couldn't have been to Marcus where he's too small
Yeah, but now you go back and kick yourself like that dumb it man
Well, we're gonna move into our next segment, which is the donut hole buddy. I got a game for you
I love games. What's going on? All right? We're gonna play movie trivia part two. Don't worry
I didn't boy. I didn't make them too hard for you. I didn't make them too hard
I tried to make them kind of easy on you. All right. All right. Here we go question number one
There are three movies that hold the record for the most Oscars one, which is the total of 11 Oscars
Which is not one of those three movies that hold 11 Oscars a
Titanic B Ben her see avatar or D Lord of the Rings return of the King. I'm gonna say been her
That is incorrect. It's actually avatar man Ben her was the first to win 11 awards
So
I've it avatar is not one. I mean they've won some awards, but not as many as the other I know when they were pumping it up
They were pumped up at a lot of words now Titanic
I automatically
Because like the VHS tape that I have that we had as a family had like 11 Oscars or whatever on the front of it
So anyways, cool deal. All right, which is not the name of a child selected to tour the Wonka Factory in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
a
Billy warp
B. Veruca salt see Mike TV or D. Charlie Bucket
Billy warp
That is correct man, I like that kid like TV. He's like it was that kid was funny
Then again, I think it might have been a refreshing character after going through Veruca salt and the blueberry gal
I know this is kind of a like
Side bit and I'll get back to the questions a bit
But you know a lot of people say that uncle Joe is the our grandpa Joe is the villain of that movie
Because like he's basically lazy and like all of a sudden he just gets up as soon as he finds out that he's going to
Wonka's chocolate factory and does this little jig and dance and
Had a bit. Yeah, you could have been working that whole time
Yeah, no, I completely understand that my thing is like I always I always found that whole bit kind of creepy
You know why you kind of have all the parents in one bit like I understand that they pour and whatnot
But but dang like that is just
That's that would that always trip me out as a kid like looking at that going high
You know and they haven't gotten up and how long oh heck no I wonder how one where their legs went
That's all I wondered when I where I watch that movie. I wonder I wondered if they're all right
I was just like, you know after reason they broke us because they're having to have all them adult diapers
Paying on themselves and whatnot have the change on it anyways. Oh, yeah
All right, the next one in the first Indiana Jones movie. What famous artifact is indy looking for a?
Mona Lisa be the Ark of the Covenant see the Holy Grail or D?
King Tutts to the first Indiana Jones can I tell you something really bad?
I get them all mixed up terribly reason being is because I've only seen bits and pieces isn't it King Tutts to him though
Correct, it's actually the Ark of the Covenant. That's pretty bad. I need to go back and watch Indiana Jones
Yeah, the new one just came out. I heard it was pretty good
It's a it's incredible Harrison Ford is still doing so well at movies
But he's definitely not doing his own stunts tell you that much anyways
Which is not a movie that stars will Smith a
hitch
Be men in black
See Ali or D the hurricane. It's it's Ali right like because that movie's about Muhammad Ali
Yeah, but he played Muhammad Ali. Did he really?
Yes, so that's so it's the hurricane
What's the hurricane about?
No, it's about a boxer that
Kills somebody shows how much I know there. That's pretty bad. I knew the first two had will Smith in it for sure
Yeah, now the hurricane has Denzel in it. All right
Which actor
Frequently stars in numerous Quentin Tarantino movies
a Samuel Jackson be Brian Reynolds see Denzel Washington or do you will barrel? It's definitely Samuel Jackson
Yeah, he loves Samuel Jackson
Could you imagine will Farrell in a Quentin Tarantino movie interesting then again?
He's been playing some interesting characters in his back years. I'll tell you that much. All right this next one which actor is not
featured in Anchorman story of Ron Burgundy
Which actor is not featured in a Steve Carell be Jim Carrey see Paul Rudd or D will Jim Carrey
Yeah, Jim Carrey is not an Anchorman. All right next one Jim Carrey plays a cop with a split personality disorder in which movie a
the mask
Be the cable guy see me myself and Irene or D the Grinch
It's the Grinch Chris
Final answer which one is which one is it for real?
To be myself and Irene. Yes, it's you yourself and Irene. I said a cop a
cop all right next one which
Star Wars actor had to have plastic surgery after a car crash in
1977 a
Mark Hamill who played Luke Skywalker
Be Carrie Fisher who played Princess Leia
See Harrison Ford who played Han Solo or D. Alec Guinness who played Obi-Wan Kenobi
I'm gonna go with Mark Hamill his face always kind of been a little off. Yes, sir. That's exactly right. There you go. All right
Next one which actor was originally intended to play Mace Windu in Star Wars?
a
Denzel Washington
B. Will Smith
See Jimmy Fox or D. Tupac Shakur. I don't know why but I'm gonna I'm gonna take a wild stab at it
Cuz I don't know was it Denzel?
No, it was actually to pop. They wanted to pop to it. Yeah, they wanted to pop to play him
But to pop died before
You could be in it. Oh if they only had today's technology they could just insert them in just CGI
All right last one last one
All right, which is not a movie directed by Steven Spielberg?
He's directed a lot of movies. So which one is not a movie that he directed a
Jurassic Park
B. Indiana Jones
See the Goonies or D inception?
I'm gonna go with a honestly
Yes, your final answer by the way you said that it makes me think that I shouldn't make them on finance a BS
It's actually inception inception was directed by Christopher Nolan. Oh really see I thought it's something like inception
Spielberg does some out there stuff too. So I thought something like an inception would be
Him yeah, but he's a I mean look at all of his hits Jurassic Park Indiana Jones the Goonies
He helped out on back to the future. I mean he gave us all the great movies that they use
He's he's rich. Yes. He is everything he does turns the gold. All right
Well, we're gonna move into our next segment, which is what fries my donuts Micah what fries your donuts this week, buddy
Oh, we're revved up revved up. So what I can't stand is people trying to push their agenda
And so this is a two-fold thing that I'm angry about and now there's there's multi facets that this could go
But there's two things in particular that really fry me up, you know, you got those people out there that really you try to state
Your opinion and they want to keep on going for example. It's like okay. You want to work on the car
You you go under the car. You say you know what? I think that it's a particular part
That is gone out on the car and then you have someone else come along and they say no, I don't think it's that part
However, you tell them all the supporting evidence of why it is that part
But they will defend to the death whether they were right. They will say no, no, no, it's not that part
It's another part. I can't stand those kind of people
But the thing is I'm not just talking about something really small. I'm talking about small instances because
The large life instances are really really really what fries my donuts and so I'm not gonna get too revved up on that
But I can't stand that kind of stuff or people just straight pushing that point. It's like I get your point
You're not right. I'm not gonna take your advice move on
the second one is
making you a part of a group or a part of a
Grants to an opinion. That's not true. What I mean by that is the classic you're in the car and you're driving
it's probably happened a lot when you were a kid and
Mom is hungry or somebody is hungry in the car and it's like well
I heard that Michael wants a cheeseburger
He said that he was getting hungry back there when you said no such thing now
I know that's a really small example
But people do that all the time in real life to big big scenarios to try to curb you
Because they expect you to what what are you gonna say in return Chris? You're literally gonna say. Oh, yeah
I'm hungry. Yeah, cuz you know better than to go. Oh, no, I'm not hungry
Cuz then mom's all mad at you giving you the stank eye in the backseat of like you should have went along with my story and
So I just I just can't say and people that push their own agendas and tried to weasel their way of like, okay
You're gonna conform to what I want to do. Yeah, I told you get that man
Especially when you told them like this is my boundary and like no, I'm not doing that
They're like, oh, yeah, you're you're still gonna do this though
It's let me give you the a good example because I don't want to get too specific because I know you'll get right right up, right?
And it's like you give your your availability to a job, right? You say I can only work
I I can work every day, but I can't work Tuesdays and Wednesdays because I have college or I got to take my grandma to the doctor
Whatever, but then your job schedules you on Tuesday or Wednesday and you figure. Oh, yeah, they must have overlooked it or not seen it
And then you tell them, hey, I'm not available on Tuesdays or Wednesdays
And then they're like, okay, and then they keep scheduling you on Tuesdays or Wednesdays
You're like, hey, I can't do this and they're like, yes, you can when you work when you sign up to work at this family
We're your family. You should have open availability and it's like but I told you you told me that you were flexible
So I get that man
It's it's it's weird especially when you put a boundary in the line and people want to keep kicking that boundary and keep
Yeah, heck. Yeah, and especially, you know, I am gonna go on a situation right quick. So
a
Particular person's washer and dryer dryer in particular broke and there's a little sensor in there and that's the reason that it broke and so
Literally I was gonna go in there and look at the part number and there's a little placard
That's within the dryer to where it has the model number and all the information that you would need to look up this part number and
Literally I had a family member who literally was trying to shove this manila folder worth of and it was stacked full of paperwork
About the dryer in my face now. Does it have the information? Sure. I can imagine so however
It's it's like I'm you know, it's gonna take me more time to open up this manila folder
Go through it and at least identify. Okay. Here's the actual manual
Here's where the model is or I could just walk out there open the door and have that in that quick of time
I think to me that's quicker and then I can also take a picture of it and all the information is writing conveniently right there and
Meanwhile, it's like I explain this all to them and you know, they're like shoving the manila folder
It's like well, why don't you look in there and it's like literally if you weren't having this conversation
This could have already been done with and over with why does it have to be this way in particular?
Why can't I do it the way that I know how to do it both will get the job done?
What really what what does it matter? And so there's a lot of things that happen that way
Dad and I don't know it's just kind of pushing that control of like no we need to do it this way
Do we really is that really what needs to be done or can we can we do it any old way and it'll work?
Yeah, people that are pushing you on their bow on the boundaries, dude
I don't like it when they push their own way or try to keep twist your arm into doing what they want
You're just like hey, man. I've already told you this is not cool. We're still doing it anyway
That's why people like that. You see their true colors, man
If you can avoid them do it. Yeah, and then last last thing on it is
The to that second point that I was talking about about you know presenting it to a group, you know recently
In a work setting I've had it before where I opposed an opinion and I had somebody at works
Tell everybody else well
I think Micah is in on the idea and so everybody's coming back to me
And the hard part is when that person is a part of your team or that somebody that is supposed to you
There's like that unwritten rule of okay. You can't go back on them. So even though
You don't actually believe that the high road dictates that you need to you know
Tell these people like oh, yeah, no, I do agree with that and
And really it depends on where the loyalties lie if you're if you're loyal to a situation and and it's okay to do that
In some situation that is okay to do but in others
It's just aggravating because it's like no no I didn't say that I didn't say that at all
in fact, I believe right the opposite of it and
You know, I understand a lot of times they're strengthened numbers
But it really fries my doughnuts when people try to curb things and try to change people's opinions and get people on their side
And try to hook people like that. That's not really that's not cool. Yeah, I don't I don't like that either
And I'll end with this. I know this we keep saying we're gonna end with this
That's that so that's right, but I hate when people
Think that just because they're family that they just get to say whatever they want they get to push whatever they want
Just because you are quote-unquote family by blood
That doesn't mean you just get to push your agenda and get to do whatever you want
Someone is in your family is saying hey, this ain't okay. Hey, you're like well, we're family. So it's okay. No, it ain't okay
Yeah, and guess what people in the family have the
Free will to literally push people away and say, you know what?
I'm not gonna deal with that and eventually it'll get there if you push too hard
So jump into our next segment, which is the mystery donut and that's our improv segment
So we got a great game. We got questions only
I love this gaming challenges me to think outside the box. So
What do you have for us for a scenario for our questions only?
We have some weird ones in the in the scenario hat over here
But this scenario is getting abducted by aliens getting abducted by aliens. Okay. Do you want to start? Yeah, I can start
Is this the mother ship, how did I even get here? Do you want them to probe you?
Are they gonna probe me? Do you really want to know where do you think they stick the probe? They're gray, aren't they?
Do you think it's weird that they're not green? Do you think they're naked?
Or is that a suit? Do you think that they're gonna eat us?
Are they gonna drop us back off in Nevada? How many days do you think they're gonna keep us here before they let us go?
How old do you think these little guys are? When do you think they're gonna let us see?
Do you think these suckers have a translator or something? Where's the bathroom? Cuz I really have to pee. Do you think they know who your mother is?
Do you think you don't even know who your mother is? We can end it on that one. All right. Do you want to do another scenario?
Yes, I got another scenario. Okay. Here we go.
At a comic-con is William Shatner gonna be here? Wouldn't you like to know who's better, Kirk or Picard?
What are you a furry? How does that even apply to Captain Kirk or Picard? Both of them are human.
Don't ask questions and answer my question.
How much do you think it's gonna be for an autograph from William Shatner?
Do you think it's more than I'm making a year? Do you think the guy, Jordy from Reading Rainbow is gonna be here?
I just got a pause very quick and remember, I totally forgot that they were the same person for a second.
The guy that has the little white bar on there and Jordy from Reading Rainbow.
Anyways, so side moment there, you distracted me with that good reference.
Do you think his autograph price is gonna be high?
How much money did you bring with you?
Wouldn't you like to know? Why won't you tell me?
Why do you want to know so bad? Are you in financial trouble?
Why would you say that? Do you have a long-term settlement and you need cash now?
Oh, Jay, gee, what worth? I'll lose for that. I'm sorry.
Well, there you go. All right, man. I'll let you pick the last scenario.
In a soda factory, whatever that is. I guess that's where, like, soda, coke is being made.
I'll start. Is this Willy Wonka's soda factory?
How much do you think these people get paid an hour?
The oompa-lumpas are your mom.
That's a good question.
Oh, man, I got to call it, dude. You went for the throat, man.
Because I was technically a question.
Sorry, I had to blow it slow. I had to hit that one out of the park.
Well, I bested you with the last two, so you had to go for the kill on the last one.
All right, we're going to move into our E. Claire, which is our positive advice.
And, Michael, what do you got for us, man?
I didn't realize how much my E. Claire actually kind of leaks back to what fries my donuts.
But just remember that those who pass judgment on you are really revealing more about themselves
than they are showing or they're trying to put you or they're actually putting you down.
That's what I'm trying to say.
So, really and truly, people who are passing judgment on you and nitpicking everything
that you're doing and saying that you're not good enough or you're doing things wrong,
they're really the insecure one.
And honestly, it's really, really sad for those people because they feel so unhappy in
their lives and their growth is so stunted that they want to reach out and pass the bucket
and unfortunately try to take your joy and take your happiness and try to take your growth
away from you.
And a lot of times, those people are successful because they know how to get under people's
skin.
And a lot of the times, like I said, if they're nitpicking everything that you're doing,
you've already won.
You've already won.
You're literally doing the best that you can in life.
Just don't let it get to you and literally don't take anything that they're saying.
Take it all with a grain of salt because they don't know what happiness is right now.
Mine is learn to let stuff roll off.
If you're like me, I tend to focus on stuff too often, like for example, the day I had
to get into a confrontation.
And after that confrontation, I had the thing of like, man, I should have said this or I
should have done this differently.
And like, I needed to have that confrontation and have that conversation.
It was important.
And by no means did I did the wrong thing.
But sometimes I sit at home and I focus on like, man, I should have said this or I should
have done that.
And even when I'm teaching the kids or preaching on Sundays, I'm like, man, I should have said
this or I didn't cover this.
And you just got to let that stuff roll off, man.
You got to sometimes say at the end of the day, I did all I could do.
If that is actually true, like if you've done all you can do, just let it go and let that
stuff roll off of you.
Now, if it's like, oh yeah, we were kind of a straight up jerky, you need to go back
and apologize, then yeah, it's good to self reflect.
But sometimes you can obsess and focus on those things.
When you just got to let that stuff roll off, there's always going to be people that don't
like you.
You're never going to make everyone happy.
There's always going to be people that call you names.
But it's like what Medea says.
And to quote Tyler Perry, the man himself, it's not what they call you, but it's what
you answer to.
So just let stuff roll off, man.
I'm having to learn that.
It's really hard for me.
But I'm learning it.
So hey, I'm still learning.
Yeah, heck yeah.
I mean, it's always good to push yourself and to try to make yourself better.
But you also don't want to hang on every word that you say and every mistake that you do
because that's perfectionism.
And I'll tell you this much, perfectionism doesn't work out in the end because we're
all human and we all make mistakes.
But yeah, man, tvtrashcan.com, tvtrashcan.com.
Go to the website.
Go see what we got over there.
We got a bunch of good stuff.
Of course, we got Instagram, Facebook, and wherever you're listening to this podcast,
we really appreciate it.
And yeah, man, I'm ready to take it out to the trash.
It's another week down.
I can't believe it.
Yeah, this is actually episode 85.
So did you know that we're 15 away from 100?
That's really crazy.
It seems like just yesterday we were just starting to fish out.
We already deep into season two.
Yeah, man, for sure.
Well, let's sign off.
I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And this is the Dota Box Podcast.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, yeah.